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Thanks everyone. As I got deeper into it I realized that these were either pirates, or ships that we're not part of the AI players. (Local militia?) I was all worried early on that the combined AI had 100 planets under control, and I had ONE. Now that I'm four hours into this huge map - I can't stop! I was going to put it away for the day, but I have all these voices in my head telling me what strategies I should be implementing to finish conquering my home system and hea

Are there NEVER any empty planets? AI is ALWAYS there! in Strategy Sins Forums

I bought this game yesteday and played a small map last night to figure it out. Today I started a huge map, with 100+ planets and 3 AI races. Scouting around the planets in my immediate vicinity every world had at least 2 and as many as 6 or 8 ships around it. So I'm forced to immediately pursue a heavy military build-up just to get an initial footprint going. I guess I had assumed that with 4 total races spread among 100 planets that I would not even come across anyone